Nepal, May 9 -- The April 21 edition of the BBC Media Action produced and Kantipur Media telecast programme Sajha Sawal (Common Questions) went to Kapilvastu district's Krishnanagar, near the border between India and Nepal, to organise a dialogue between the local people (mostly Muslim men and women) and three interlocutors. Among them were two politicians-Ghanshyam Bhusal, the Nepal Communist Party's thinker and member of Parliament, and Abhishek Pratap Sah, the local Congress member of Parliament-and Mohna Ansari, commissioner of the National Human Rights Commission of Nepal.

The presenter informed the audience in his initial announcement that Kapilvastu district was behind all 12 districts of Province 5 in education, healthcare and em...